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Increased male investment in sperm competition results in reduced maintenance of gametes

2022-03-19

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<h4>Summary</h4> Male animals often show higher mutation rates than their female conspecifics. A hypothesis for this male-bias is that competition over fertilization of female gametes leads to increased male investment into reproduction at the expense of maintenance and repair, resulting in a trade-off between male success in sperm competition and offspring quality. Here, we provide evidence for this hypothesis b...

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Literature Corpus work: f58bc3b2-afe9-55a0-a179-b2ddf3555970
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.18.484900

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